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Hot Licks And Rhetoric: Collecting, Community, And Disruptive Literacies, Joseph P. Serio
Hot Licks And Rhetoric: Collecting, Community, And Disruptive Literacies, Joseph P. Serio
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This ethnographic dissertation investigates the activities and tactical technical communications (TTC) of underground music collectors. Through this it explores the concepts of community and institution that compositionists and technical writing scholars use as ways to address social influences on writing, but which fail to explain how these milieus influence the writers and their genres. Collectors of Recordings of Independent Origin (ROIOs), through the use of increasingly disruptive technologies, moved from passive listeners to active producers of music for sharing freely, garnering opposition from the music industry as their activities moved online. This study views the relationship between the music industry, …